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Women stage unique protest against ‘rape culture’

11:41 pm January 4, 2020

Kolkata: College and university students, professionals, housewives and women from different walks of life converged in the hub of the city on Saturday to protest physical violence against women across the world including in India. Around 200 women gathered before New Empire cinema hall at 3 pm with their eyes covered protesting against the ‘rape […]

JNU students boycott exams over fee hike issue

4:29 pm December 12, 2019

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University students boycotted the exams on Thursday over the hostel fee hike issue, even as the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies (SSIS) saw students appearing for their papers. Sources said exams were also held in School of Engineering and the Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship. Professor […]

JNU inks pact with ICMR for educational collaboration

9:06 pm October 7, 2019

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) signed an MoU with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday for institutional collaboration in education and research. JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar said the main objectives of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) were to promote and enhance interactions and collaborations between the faculty, staff and […]

IIT Delhi, Ayurveda institute to develop herbal wound dressing, fumigation device for wound healing

Hike in fees for IIT MTech courses not for existing students: HRD ministry

9:50 pm September 29, 2019

New Delhi: The HRD Ministry said on Sunday that the recent hike in fees for M Tech courses at Indian Institutes of Technology will not impact existing students. It said the hike will be applicable on fresh admissions only and “needy students” will be provided necessary financial support. “There is no fee hike for the existing students. […]

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath meets Kashmiri students; talks of dialogue and democracy

Yogi meets Kashmiri students, talks of dialogue and democracy

6:29 pm September 28, 2019

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday met a group of Kashmiri students here and talked of the importance of dialogue in democracy while urging them to share their trial and tribulations directly with him to resolve them. “We are living in a democratic society and it should be kept in mind that […]